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Major actors in different industries own data about phenomena and places, as well as about the way those two elements are correlated to each other: they know where their customers live; they know where a transaction occurred; they know where their...

Data scientists pride themselves on knowing every programming language under the sun, every library available to man and the ability to work in only code like the Zion operators from the Matrix. They are also control freaks who like to tweak and...

Traditionally, unexpected results are called bugs in computer programs. A computer should produce the results we expect, otherwise it’s faulty and needs to be fixed. We’re so used to the bipolar world of true vs. false, right vs. wrong,...

“People are surprised when they load data into incompassionate algorithms and don’t see the face of God.” (quote from an anonymous analyst)
* actually there are only seven
More surprisingly you can stream a Twitter feed into your...

During summer we as a family had a great party celebrating different mile stones like a wedding anniversary and my daughters passing exams, having a farewell party for an exchange program abroad and obtaining a master’s degree. I ordered food,...

The rise of social networks has led to an increase in unstructured data available for analysis, with a large proportion of this data being in text format such as tweets, blog posts, and Facebook posts. This data has a wide range of applications, for...

Fraud is an increasing problem that affects a wide range of industries including insurance where fraud cases worth millions of pounds are uncovered every day in the UK[1]. The Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department[2] only in the last 3 months has...

Social media analytics is a fast growing field within data science. The advance in social media gave rise to an entirely new era in digital marketing. Understanding how people interact and how brands engage with consumers using different...

Objective – To predict the EU referendum
Hypothesis – Determine whether social media is a viable forum for predicting the EU referendum
The EU referendum has been one of the most discussed and controversial topics in recent...

So I wrote the piece below over the weekend of the 10th September with the intention to publish it on the 12th September. However during the day of the 12th the announcement came through that OpenText had acquired EMC's ECD division. Whilst this...